# Time series dashboard issue with grafana

**URL:** https://community.influxdata.com/t/time-series-dashboard-issue-with-grafana/57742
**Category:** Systems
**Tags:** grafana
**Created:** [August 3, 2025, 3:52pm UTC](https://community.influxdata.com/t/time-series-dashboard-issue-with-grafana/57742 "2025-08-03T15:52:41Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author: ![Tal\_Bar-Or](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex023/user_avatar/community.influxdata.com/tal_bar-or/32/4510_2.png) [@Tal\_Bar-Or](https://community.influxdata.com/u/Tal_Bar-Or)
#### Post date: [August 3, 2025, 3:52pm UTC](https://community.influxdata.com/t/time-series-dashboard-issue-with-grafana/57742/1 "2025-08-03T15:52:41Z")

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Hello ,

I am newbie with Influxdb ,just migrated from Prometheus, i have influxdb 3 , i am trying to create time cpu and the graph looks weird, i can get it look coherent (dont know if its the right world )

Please advice

Thanks

InfluxDb graph

 ![Screenshot 2025-08-03 184214](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex023/uploads/influxdata/original/3X/6/d/6da365c837304106512deaa925fb8be062ccaf7a.png)

Prometheus

 ![Screenshot 2025-08-03 184925](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex023/uploads/influxdata/original/3X/1/8/184bdc054a054733748cfa73e49821818906e409.png)

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### Author: ![suyash](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex023/user_avatar/community.influxdata.com/suyash/32/15791_2.png) [@suyash](https://community.influxdata.com/u/suyash)
#### Post date: [August 5, 2025, 9:17am UTC](https://community.influxdata.com/t/time-series-dashboard-issue-with-grafana/57742/2 "2025-08-05T09:17:19Z")

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Perhaps a better question for Grafana forum, but firstly ensure the SQL query is returning all the data correctly before plotting that using graph. Then make sure Grafana component and variables are correctly setup.

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### Author: ![broz07](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex023/user_avatar/community.influxdata.com/broz07/32/20073_2.png) [@broz07](https://community.influxdata.com/u/broz07)
#### Post date: [August 5, 2025, 9:59am UTC](https://community.influxdata.com/t/time-series-dashboard-issue-with-grafana/57742/3 "2025-08-05T09:59:44Z")

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@Tal_Bar-Or Hi, try to select time series format in query settings. 🙂

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex023/uploads/influxdata/original/3X/7/f/7fb67326fe2a0e384a12e22cf8345ff1ed84fe6a.png)